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Energy Systems Integration (ESI) 102 Course

By The International Institute for Energy Systems Integration (iiESI)

Date and time

August 3, 2015 · 8:30am - August 7, 2015 · 3pm MDT

Location

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) – Maxwell Conference Room

15013 Denver West Parkway Golden, CO 80401

Description

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Energy Systems Integration (ESI) 102 Course

Hosted by the International Institute for Energy Systems Integration (iiESI)

Monday, August 3, 2015 at 8:30 AM – Friday, August 7, 2015 at 3:00 PM (MDT)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO

The International Institute of Energy Systems Integration presents a course on Energy Systems Integration (ESI). The course is informed by a recent workshop held in Imperial College London that identified key research challenges in ESI, hence this course is particularly suited for those with an interest in the future research challenges. The course also builds on previous courses held at NREL (ESI 101) and KU Leuven, but these are not deemed to be prerequisites.

The course will cover the research challenges of ESI at all scales (from residential to continental) across multiple energy (and non-energy) domains from a technical, market, regulatory, and consumer standpoint. The course is designed to give a snap shot on the state of the art in ESI and the research challenges. The course is suitable for graduate students and practitioners working in the field with a very diverse set of backgrounds (i.e., Electrical Engineers, Social Scientists, etc.). Each of the five days will consist of lectures and project work.

Curriculum: The ESI subject is vast, and the course is designed to illustrate the breadth and importance of the area while highlighting some specific research challenges with some research outputs at a level of detail that is challenging and useful to the students. Topics include:

  • Integrated energy system modelling across temporal and spatial resolutions, including short term flexibility needs into longer term energy system planning models.
  • Electricity markets, EU Emissions Trading System.
  • Behavior and impact of the consumer in an integrated energy system, modelling and validation.
  • Integration of heat and electricity grids to provide “virtual storage,” from concept to reality.
  • Autonomous energy systems, distributed multi energy and multigrid networks.

A draft schedule for the week is included below.

Instructors include: Dr. Vera Silva, EDF, France; Dr. Miguel Lopez-Botet Zulueta, EDF, France; Dr. Pierliugi Mancarella, University of Manchester, UK; Prof. Linda Steg, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Prof. Mark O’Malley, UCD, Ireland; Dr. Ben Kroposki, NREL, USA; Dr. Brian Palmintier, NREL, USA; Dr. Mark Ruth, NREL, USA; Prof. William D'haeseleer, KU Leuven, Belgium; Prof. Siddharth (Sid) Suryanarayanan, CSU, USA; Prof. James McCalley, ISU, USA, Dr. Erik Ela, Electric Power Research Institute, USA.

The course is sponsored by iiESI with the generous support of NREL. There is no fee to attend, but participants will have to cover their own transport and accommodation costs. Attendance is limited to 40 people, so register soon; registration will close July 17.

For further information, please contact Diane Littau at Diane.Littau@nrel.gov.


Hotel Information

The Denver Marriott West is offering a special group rate for this conference of 163.00 USD per night. Reservations must be made by July 13.

Book your group rate for NREL iiESI Workshop - ESI 102 Course.



Draft Schedule

Monday 3rd August

8:30 – 8:45

Introduction and overview

M. O’Malley

8:45 – 10:15

Experience from Europe; ESI challenges and identification of pertinent research issues.

W. D'haeseleer

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee

10:45 – 12:15

Energy System Planning and the interactions with electricity system planning a European model.

V. Silva and M. Zulueta

12:15 – 1:15

Lunch

1:15 – 2:15

Integrated energy system models

M.O’Malley and I. van Beuzekom,

2:15 – 2:45

Coffee

2:45 – 5:00

Project Work: Hands-on with a typical planning modelling tool (LEAP) & one typical operational modelling tool (EnergyPLAN)

M. O’Malley and I. van Beuzekom,

Tuesday 4th August

8:30 – 10:00

Integrated electricity and market modelling; A high performance computing example.

M. Ruth & B. Palmintier

10:00– 10:30

Coffee

10:30 – 12:00

Introduction to HOMER

NREL

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 2:30

Co-optimization methods for integrated design and assessment of natural gas/electric systems/transportation systems.

J. McCalley

2:30– 3:00

Coffee

3:00 – 5:00

Project Work: Hands-on with a typical planning modelling tool (LEAP) & one typical operational modelling tool (EnergyPLAN)

M. O’Malley and I. van Beuzekom,

Wednesday 5th August

8:30 – 10:00

Business Cases for distributed multi- energy systems

P. Mancarella

10:00– 10:30

Coffee

10:30 – 12:30

Economies of scale vs societal interest in small autonomous systems

J. McCalley

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 2:30

Tour of Energy Systems Integration Facility

B. Kroposki

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee

3:00 – 5:00

Project Work: Hands-on with HOMER

NREL

5:00 – 9:00

Social trip to Mount Evans

Thursday 6th August

8:30 – 10:00

Behavior and impact of the consumer in an integrated energy system

L. Steg

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee

10:30 – 12:00

Cyber physical social systems: modelling of consumer assets and behavior in an integrated energy system

S. Suryanarayanan

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 5:00

Project Work: Technological paths, based on a questionnaire that students fill in the responses will be the basis of an active discussion.

J. McCalley

Friday 7th August

8:30 – 10:00

Flexibility in integrated energy systems and virtual storage

P. Mancarella

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee

10:30 – 12:00

Power and Energy Modeling at Multiple Timescales

E. Ela

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 3:00

Open discussion on lessons learnt & Close

M. O’Malley

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